After a decisive 27-18 victory over the Washington Commanders that pushed the Packers to a confident 2-0, Jordan Love let a secret slip. In a league of copycats, Love admitted to pulling a page right out of Tom Brady ’s playbook. “I think that’s just the cool part of our offense,” Love said with a grin, “it’s just some of the stuff that we can keep building on…trick plays.”

Under the hoodie of Bill Belichick, the Patriots operated with a magician’s disdain for convention. They had more gadgets, as Tom Brady once noted, “than we could ever call in a season. ” From Julian Edelman ’s 37-yard pass to James White against these very Packers to put New England at the 2-yard line, to the infamous “Philly Special” precursor where Danny Amendola hit a wide-open Brady fo

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